IT Contracting on Weekends/Evenings?

directdebiter

DiNZi wrote: »

I carried over 17 days and I'm entitled 26 days, so 43 days.

I told others too they are surprised lol, they are a small charity and don't mind carrying that many days over. I plan to hold talks tomorrow anyway, with my boss I'll be asking them if they can pay me for 3 weeks annual leave out of the 30 days.

Ok fair enough :T

DiNZi

To be honest, it's been pretty busy at work since the new year so I haven't had much time to find any work for Evenings/Weekends recently but I'm still very much up for it.

IT Contracting advise for the hours I'm looking for are welcome, but if you can suggest some other things as well to earn money during my time in the evening/weekends that would be great, thanks.

Do places like Currys/PC World take people that want to work hours evening/weekend by any chance? I reckon I'd make a good Sales Advisor in any technology store.

Jakg

DiNZi wrote: »

Do places like Currys/PC World take people that want to work hours evening/weekend by any chance? I reckon I'd make a good Sales Advisor in any technology store.

Yes - back when I was at university I worked there part time over the weekend (12 hours a week).

The stores usually shut at 8 so I can't see it being worth it working from 5-8 during the week though.

Having said that - if you know what your doing there must be something better in your sector than working in retail for new NMW.

bluesnake

I have both seen full time week/weekend work, known people whom did daily weekend work, and have personally done work for 3 days.

You need to join an agency and be on good terms with them to get in, and for the best pay.

Full time and weekend stuff, is around. normally it is a helpdesk/support in a call centre. Often rubbish rates and you learn nothing.

Good paying weekend/evening short term work is often done for large company moves, like banks, or data centre moves. These can be 2 days of humping heavy equipment around for two 18 hours work days over the weekend and a 30 min lunch break. May last a few weekends. That 6 hour brake, most grab a bite and sleep in their cars.

You get the odd small company, or growing startup move where you have to set up their office system. Had a week annual leave and I cabled, networked 8 PCs, printing, internet and migrated email for company over 3 days by myself.

There unrealistic full time perm jobs out there like below that pay far too little, and expect far too much for the role and responsibility. Bet many of the applicants will be cooks who have a pc at home for 5 years, or feel that they can grow into the job with training

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Technician
Location: Devizes
Type: Permanent
Salary: £30,764 - £40,558
Start Date: (TBD)

Description: Senior Server Infrastructure Technician
Band 7

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Central Southern for a Senior Server Infrastructure Technician to lead our Server & Back Office/Application support team and assist with ongoing IT projects.

Senior Server Infrastructure Technician Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Technical Infrastructure Manager, the Senior Server Infrastructure Technician will lead & mentor the Server Support team in supporting the maintenance and improvement of our back office services and infrastructure. Design and build new environments (particularly virtualised). Work with the wider operations team to ensure smooth transition of changes and projects. Provide expert 3rd/4th line support and provide accurate and concise technical documentation & process maps.

Senior Server Engineer Skill-Set:
You will have an ITIL Foundation qualification, excellent knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, Windows Server, Virtualised technology, (Vmware, Vsphere, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop), RAS/Juniper, SAN/ Storage technologies. Knowledge of SQL Server administration, Cloud based technologies, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Dell & HP hardware. Experienced with LAN/WAN technologies. Knowledge of Certero and/or Snow and knowledge/experience of FlexPod advantageous.

You should have at least 5 years experience in a server/systems support role, at least 2 years of which in a supervisory capacity, MCP/VCP and Prince 2 qualifications are desirable.

The Senior Server Engineer Position will be based in Devizes, Wiltshire, the ability and willingness to travel across the Central Southern region is required for this role.

Even 4th line maintenance engineers that attend our SAN with a 5 page 'how to', or just do a hot swap disk replacement, with overtime gross over 70k a year. Pick just one of the big products above, and as a reasonably skilled contractor, you should be earning around £350 a day in London (if you are lucky £500), - but you do have to know your stuff.

If you are a project manger, then you will probably need to know far less, often do little our of hour work, very few weekends, and often get paid more than most techies.

CrowCrow

bluesnake wrote: »

If you are a project manger, then you will probably need to know far less, often do little our of hour work, very few weekends, and often get paid more than most techies.

Joys of PM. Techies do the tech stuff. PMO do the paperwork/budget. PMs do, er, get the coffees?